Pith Number

pith:A5NCCHGZ

pith:2017:A5NCCHGZY2X4NEMTQTKCE6VMRB

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Recalling a Witness: Foundations and Applications of Monotonic State

Aseem Rastogi, Catalin Hritcu, C\'edric Fournet, Danel Ahman, Kenji Maillard, Nikhil Swamy

arxiv:1707.02466 v3 · 2017-07-08 · cs.PL · cs.CR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{A5NCCHGZY2X4NEMTQTKCE6VMRB}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:30:57.627608Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

075a211cd9c6afc6919384d4227aac885f9c57a7342d5f5fc2d0f6deeb6b466e

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.02466 · arxiv_version: 1707.02466v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.02466 · pith_short_12: A5NCCHGZY2X4 · pith_short_16: A5NCCHGZY2X4NEMT · pith_short_8: A5NCCHGZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/A5NCCHGZY2X4NEMTQTKCE6VMRB \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 075a211cd9c6afc6919384d4227aac885f9c57a7342d5f5fc2d0f6deeb6b466e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f80e6004bdb1aeb7597628e2c69c9b7ea8ef01db33b59c9e056857d8b15901ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.PL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-08T16:48:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5227579193b610d190c884e70acc357288887ad943a6046d85d53bf229b755d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.02466",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}